Simplest way to get the equivalent of "find ." in python?

Question

What is the simplest way to get the full recursive list of files inside a folder with python? I know about os.walk(), but it seems overkill for just getting the unfiltered list of all files. Is it really the only option?

Answer 1

There's nothing preventing you from creating your own function:

import os

def listfiles(folder):
    for root, folders, files in os.walk(folder):
        for filename in folders + files:
            yield os.path.join(root, filename)

You can use it like so:

for filename in listfiles('/etc/'):
    print filename